The Rival Queens (47 page)

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 “A prince is… esteemed when”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
95.

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 “She did me the honor”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
44.

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 “I spoke of my brother’s affairs”: Ibid.

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 “Upon our arrival”: Ibid., 46.

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 “She asked him why he made that observation”: Ibid., 46–47.

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 “He began by observing”: Ibid., 47.

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 “I did not omit to say everything”: Ibid., 48.

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 “ordered me never to speak”: Ibid.

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 “Sir, after doing what you have done”: Macdowall,
Henry of Guise,
25.

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 “My brother’s words had made”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
48.

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 “She flew into a passion”: Ibid., 48–49.

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 “He came and sat at the foot”: Ibid., 49.

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 “came daily to see me”: Ibid., 50–51.

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 “There is nothing talked of publicly”: Macdowall,
Henry of Guise,
28.

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 “The ladies at court are real stirrers”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
189.

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 “did not dare to reproach him”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
51.

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 “of use to have children”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
15.

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 “I tell you clearly what I think”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:11–12.

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 “The King of Spain was using”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
51–52.

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“To engage in battle with these people”: Wood,
The King’s Army,
125.

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 “eight or ten good leagues”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
227.

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 “We defeat them again and again”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
339.

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 “I no longer have need”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
189.

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 “Not a single person”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
52.

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 “forward this match”: Ibid., 51.

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 “Every day some new matter”: Ibid.

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 “I resolved to write to my sister”: Ibid., 52.

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 “She readily saw through it”: Ibid.

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 marry a “negress”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
190.

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 “One ought never to allow a disorder”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
16.

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 “will not show himself”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:57.

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 “To be plain”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
245. The exact quote is: “To be playne, the only thinge that I feare in this matche is the consyderatyon of the delycasye of her majestyes eye and of the harde favor of the gentleman besides his dysfygurying with the smaule pockes: which yf she shoolde see with her eye, I mysdowbt mych yt woolde withdrawe her leekying to proceade.”

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 “the King, my son”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
346.

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 “Better to die by a bold stroke”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
237.

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 “His chief attendant, the Count de Retz”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:61.

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 “My mother loves him so much”: Frieda,
Catherine de Medici,
226.

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 “is to be found”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
238.

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 call the admiral
mon père
: Roeder,
Catherine de’ Medici and the Lost Revolution,
429.

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 “We are too old”: Ibid., 431.

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 “I cannot imagine why”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
355.

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 “is a resolution I have taken”: Ibid., 358.

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 “Upon the success of the Navarre marriage”: Shimizu,
Conflict of Loyalties,
160.

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 “A marriage was projected”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
53–54.

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 “he would be damned unless”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:56.

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 “It is perfectly well understood”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
240.

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 “the Admiral told him very politely”: Ibid., 239.

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 “The war would maintain his authority”: Shimizu,
Conflict of Loyalties,
174.

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 “In Paris there are a growing number”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
200.

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 “if the king ordered”: Ibid., 201.

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 “Madame has paid me great honor”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
368.

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 “I am being obliged to negotiate”: Ibid., 372.

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“My son, since writing this letter”: Ibid., 374.

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 “the Queen of Navarre wishes”: Ibid., 363.

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 “Two days ago
Navarra
… Madame has pretended to be indisposed”: Ibid., 377–78.

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 “Every enticement will be offered”: Ibid., 381.

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 “The Queen of Navarre lies”: Ibid., 388.

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 “Whilst the Queen of Navarre”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
54–55.

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 “You must decide whether to obey me”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
79–80.

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 “After all the pains”: Sichel,
The Later Years of Catherine de’ Medici,
139.

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 “His Majesty refuses to adventure”: Ibid., 148.

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 “It cannot be called a virtue”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
37.

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 “The Comte de Retz and I”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
355.

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 “had the graces of a courtier”: Ibid., 402.

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 “crude beyond the pale”: Ibid., 385.

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 “Henry needed much affection”: Ibid., 407.

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 “be able to get the king”: Sutherland,
The Massacre of St Bartholomew and the European Conflict,
275.

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 “to make her the most”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
206.

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 “So great was the magnificence”: Hotman,
A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce,
36.

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 “a garden, filled with greens”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
35.

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 “So great is the familiarity”: Hotman,
A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce,
37.

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 “If he had simply walked”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
88.

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 “The shot came from the window”: Whitehead,
Gaspard de Coligny,
259.

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 “ ’Sdeath! Shall I never have”: White,
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew,
391.

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 “His face turned pale”: Ibid., 391. The Venetian ambassador’s name is Giovanni Michiel, and his exact words were: “Si facesse pallido e restasse smarrito oltro modo e senza dir parola si retirasse.”

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 “Everyone supposed it had been done”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
88.

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 “You bear the wound”: White,
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew,
395.

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 “went to the King in his closet”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
58–59.

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 “the Admiral must be ever”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
59.

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 “concluded with observing”: Ibid., 59–60; the italics are mine.

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 “As for the harquebus shot”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
92.

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 “she had vowed to avenge”: Ibid., 59.

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 “which rendered him deserving”: Ibid., 58.

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“The King had so great a regard”: Ibid., 57.

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 “Kill them! Kill them all!”: Héritier,
Catherine de Medici,
323.

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 “I was perfectly ignorant”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
62.

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 “The Huguenots were suspicious of me”: Ibid.

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 “They called in the duke of Guise”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
94.

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 “I placed myself on a coffer”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
62.

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 “more dead than alive”: Ibid., 63.

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 “As soon as I reached my own closet”: Ibid.

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 “For my part I was unable”: Ibid.

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 “as soon as day broke”: Ibid., 64.

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 “Are you not the Admiral?” White,
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew,
418.

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 “Well done, my men”: Ibid., 419.

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 “Kill, kill!”: Ibid., 427.

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 “cruelly butchering those they encountered”: Goulart,
Mémoires de l’estat de France sous Charles IX,
295.

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 “Carts filled with the dead bodies”: Ibid.

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 “But then… the king gave the order”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
95.

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 “As soon as I beheld it was broad day”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
64–66.

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 “God knows if I will ever see you”: Pitts,
Henri IV of France,
63.

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 “in birth and rank”: Diefendorf,
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,
90.

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 The queen mother made a point of rising: See Knecht,
Catherine de’ Medici,
163, and Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médici,
2:119.

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 “As I write, they are killing them all”: Roeder,
Catherine de’ Medici and the Lost Revolution,
463.

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 “She has grown ten years younger!”: Sichel,
Catherine de’ Medici and the French Reformation,
6.

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 “Five or six days afterwards”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
66.

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 “ ‘Madame, since you have put the question’ ”: Ibid.

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 “Whoever thinks that in high personages”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
34.

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 “On All Hallows’ Eve”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
113.

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 “many a time I have heard”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
48.

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 the Muses or the Nymphs: Viennot,
Marguerite de Valois,
78.

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 “unique pearl and everlasting flower”: Ibid., 80. The exact quote is: “Perle unique du monde et sa fleur immortelle.”

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 “The king spends much”: Roelker,
Queen of Navarre,
375.

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 There seems to have been: As recounted in Petitot,
Collection Complète des Mémoires relatifs a L’Histoire de France
45:82.

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 “I salute you as the mother”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:135.

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“For my part, the most becoming”: Bourdeïlle and Saint-Beuve,
Illustrious Dames at the Court of the Valois Kings,
159.

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 “She seemed to them so beautiful”: Ibid., 154.

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 “a second Minerva, goddess of eloquence”: Ibid., 164.

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 “that divine woman”: Freer,
Henry III,
1:236.

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 “For some months before he quitted”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
67.

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 “Go! Go! You will not stay long”: Sichel,
The Later Years of Catherine de’ Medici,
215.

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 “The Huguenots, on the death of the Admiral”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
67.

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 “M. de Miossans, a Catholic gentleman”: Ibid., 68.

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 “I went immediately to the King”: Ibid.

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 “I begged they might be excused”: Ibid., 68–69.

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 “All this while my brother Alençon”: Ibid., 69.

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 “Madame, you are the cause of all!”: Freer,
Henry III, King of France and Poland,
1:244. The exact phrase is “Madame, vous êtes cause de tout!”

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 “The excitement was very great”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
59.

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 “We set off”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
70.

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 “daily growing worse”: Ibid., 69.

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 “They could at least have waited”: Roeder,
Catherine de’ Medici and the Lost Revolution,
511.

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 “I was suffered to pass”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
71.

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 “God! May I die”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:159–60.

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 “My husband, having no counselor”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
70.

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 In fact, the image: Petitot,
Collection Complète des Mémoires,
45:84.

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 “to them both, a very humble”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
62.

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 “With God’s help I accomplished”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
70.

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 “You see, my lords”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
62.

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 “May God and the Blessed Virgin”: Petitot,
Collection Complète des Mémoires,
45:84. In French: “Dieu ait merci de mo name, et la benoiste Vierge! Recommandez-moi bien aux bonnes graces de la reine de Navarre et des dames!”

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 But the memoirs of the duke of Nevers:
Les Memoires de Monsieur Le Duc de Nevers,
1:75.

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 “begged that I should take”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:165.

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 “my mother”: Ibid.

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 “the only stay and support”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
71.

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 “He begged me that I should send”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:165.

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 “You know how much I love you”: Ibid.